Adcock, Roy Dale, 2Lt., Pilot, Enlistment Service # : 19060779 Officer's Service # : O-662851 MISSING IN ACTION on 04 April 1943~POW~On Bombing Mission; The target was El Djem airdrome. The escort was Spitfires. 700 rounds of ammunition was expended. 288 x 20 lb frags were dropped in train from 6000 ft. Lt. Adcock and crew failed to return. He was last seen with his left engine smoking. It was later confirmed by two Spitfire pilots that the ship went down behind enemy lines.

"Roy Adcock" COL US AIR FORCE WORLD WAR II, KOREA, VIETNAM

Lt Roy Adcock, (1920-2005) Pilot of the stricken B-25, hit by FLAK and having to make an emergency crash landing behind enemy lines and taken as POW since 4 April, 1943.

57th Bomb Wing, 321st Bomb Group WAR-DIARY; Wednesday, 7 July 1943

USAAF Chronology: MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO):

WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (Northwest African Air Force): North-west African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) Wellingtons bomb Palermo, Sicily and airfields at Villacidro, Milis, and Pabillonis, Sardinia during the night of 6/7 Jul. In Sicily during the day, B-17's, B-25's, and B-26's bomb Gerbini satellite fields and Bo Rizzo Airfield, as P-40's fly a diversionary sweep over the W part of Sicily; Northwest African Tactical Air Force (NATAF) A-20's hit Sciacca during the night of 6/7 Jul, and the following day bomb airfields at Trapani, Biscari, Comiso, Bo Rizzo, and Mazara del Vallo, and hit Sciacca, and Marsala radar stations, Caltanissetta and Porto Empedocle.

445th BS War Diary: ********** It was learned today from Mrs. Johnson, mother of Lt. Johnson, who went down with Lt. Adcock’s crew at El Djem on April 4th, that Lt’s. Johnson and Hill, Sgt’s. Lippincott, Boyd and Campbell were all safe but prisoners of war in the hands of the Germans. She said that Sgt. Lippincott received slight injuries in the landing. ***********

As Lt. Roy D Adcock's daughter, I've heard many stories from my dad and have gathered lots of information. There were two Roy Adcocks in the 445th bomb group. The last two paragraphs of the second Roy Adcock belong in the top article as those were the men in my dad's crew. The bottom Roy has Roy Dale's death date and location. Roy Dale Adcock lived to be 84, two weeks short of his 85th birthday.